On Friday 10 Jun 2005 19:40 pm, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
On Friday 10 June 2005 14:30, steve wrote: <SNIP>> >
We tried mounting the 9.3 dvd as a NFS share for our installation server but there were timing problems as the disk had to spin up to speed and even then it could only cope with one install at a time. I'd recommend copying the whole lot to a hard drive somewhere on your lan (it's about 8GB) mounting it somewhere and exporting _that_. The speed increase will impress. Steve.
That's what I'm trying to do. I actually had copied (scp -r * host:/location) the image to the server where I'm setting up the Installation Server. But the server wanted to copy it all again. I also wasn't too confident as to what was actually on the server since I received a lot of IO error messages when it tried to copy the 64 bit directory.
I've tried this several tmes - If the dvd is mounted on the server when you export it, then it seems to work, but if you export the mount point then mount the dvd the nfs mounts never seem to see the mounted filesystem and thngs get tied n knots with lots of expired file handles and some zombe processes. For the distribution install media I found it much easier to copy the dvd to a drive on the server. Dylan
-- Regards, Steven
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